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Cancer patients turning to Internet for information

...ed it to find cancer relative information. In the related study, investigators found that patients are not the only ones ousing the Internet. In many cases, their companions are also performing Web searches to obtain cancer-related information. Dr. Sofia Yakren of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

... people had a very bad family history with deaths related to stomach cancer. On this basis these members were taken in for the study and after thorough counselling they underwent surgical removal of stomach. "The somehow surprising and medically fascinating observation was that all five cases had small g...

Hostility can hurt your heart

...se. The study measured the levels of homocysteine related to behaviour and mood changes. Homocysteine is a byproduct of animal protein which is broken down in the bloodstream by B comlex vitamins and folate. Elevated levels of this chemical caused damage to the cells lining the walls of the arteries which ...

Watch your weight when pregnant

... a formula that is based on height and weight, and related it to her chances of having a Cesarean section. Women requiring the surgery were an average weight of 191 pounds and had an average BMI of 53, while women who delivered vaginally weighed an average of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The re...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...drug methotrexate were less likely to have a liver related complications than those taking just methotrexate. Hence patients taking the folate supplements were able to continue their drug therapy for longer periods. In their study which included 400 patients , came out with the figures which is as f...

Big and Bright

...und that on average,// IQ at age seven is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother'... than girls, with a 1000g increase in birth weight related to a 4.6 increase in IQ among boys but only 2.8 points in girls. The authors say differences i...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

...a indicated that sex and hand writing seemed to be related to some anatomic features. For example, the Pars Triangularis was significantly larger in left thatn right-handers, and the adjacent portions of the frontal lobe were larger in men than women", according to Foundas....

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...testinal bleeding. Aspirin inhibits two closely related cyclooxygenase enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2. These new drugs specifically inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting lining of the stomach). Celebrex, was rec...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

... can lead to serious complications called skeletal related events like fractures, compression of the spinal cord, severe bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia ...

A non-stick danger

...ne destroyers. Continued use of Teflon and other related polymers may release a chemical combination that exacerbates global warming and ozone-depletion in the stratosphere, the researchers concluded....

Acupuncture provides relief

...ences in mobility and pain between the groups. A related commentary in the journal points out that laser acupuncture was a good choice of control when the trial was designed because the patient undergoing treatment still thinks of themselves as receiving a valid form of acupuncture treatment. But the smal...

The cocaine danger

...er of people admitted to US hospitals with cocaine related emergencies has jumped from around 80,000 in 1990 to nearly double that two years ago.// Working on rabbit hearts, a University of Michigan team have found that taking in cocaine causes a reaction called a complement cascade. This occurs when there ...

Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

...edications market is viewed as a typical lifestyle related disease with high brand loyalty. Current lifestyle disease markets like cardiovascular and diabetes therapies are gradually getting saturated. The time is right for Indian pharmaceutical companies to focus on the osteoporosis medications market. br&...

Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

... to the emotional state of the caller and 10% were related to the call-taker missing information or failing to be understood by the caller. It was also noted in the report that although the use of mobile phones often helped to reduce the time taken to notify the emergency services of a problem, this had to...

Drink milk right now

...ncer. Milk consumption as a child was negatively related to breast cancer incidence, after adjustment for factors such as age, reproductive and hormonal factors, body mass index and alcohol consumption. However, childhood milk consumption only appeared to be protective against breast cancer among those wom...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...college,California report that proteins chemically related to snake venom and frog skin secretions may lead to the development of new treatments for a range of stubborn digestive disorders. The findings, mark the discovery of two naturally occurring human proteins, which the researchers have named prokineti...

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

... which was identified in the mid-1990s, is closely related to the hepatitis C virus. But unlike hepatitis C, which can cause serious liver disease, hepatitis G is not thought to cause illness. Nearly 2% of healthy blood donors test positive for the virus, and more than one third of HIV-positive individuals m...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...re common in diabetics. But glycemic control was related to the likelihood of gastrointestinal problems, Bytzer and colleagues found. Participants who reported having poor glycemic control were more likely to have intestinal symptoms than diabetics who reported being able to keep their blood sugar under co...

Poisonous Parkinson's molecule discovered

...t the disease, they found high concentrations of a related molecule called ADTIQ. It was particularly localised in the substantia nigra, and so it may be an important clue as to how the cells here die - ADTIQ may be exerting a toxic effect. If the TIQs could be detected in blood, say, or urine, this could ...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...59 men and women. They then compared heart disease related illness in people with high-normal blood pressure to people with high blood pressure. Overall, women with high-normal blood pressure had a 2.5 times greater risk of heart disease than did those with normal blood pressure, and men with high-normal val...

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